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BY
HOMAS AYES


ECEMBER 1987

S ITS NAME SUGGESTS, -
COMBINES ASPECTS OF BOTH CROSSWORD
PUZZLES AND WORD SEARCH GAMES. ASED
ON COMPUTER TERMS, - WILL
CHALLENGE HACKERS AND WORD-GAME
AFICIONADOS ALIKE.

ROSSWORD ODE
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HE FIRST STEP IN PLAYING IS TO
TYPE IN THE ANSWER TO THE FIRST
CROSSWORD CLUE -- THE PROGRAM
DISPLAYS THE NUMBER OF WORDS AND
LETTERS IT WANTS. HE FIRST CLUE,
FOR EXAMPLE, IS "". HE COMPUTER
THEN TELLS YOU THAT THERE ARE THREE
WORDS MADE UP OF 24 LETTERS IN THE
SOLUTION.

F YOU ANSWER "IDEO NTERFACE
ONTROLLER," THE COMPUTER WILL BEEP
THREE TIMES AND SEND YOU TO THE
SECOND QUESTION. (OTE: DO NOT PUT
SPACES OR ANY SYMBOLS OTHER THAN THE
ALPHABET IN YOUR ANSWER.) F YOU GET
STUCK ON ONE QUESTION, PRESS 1 TO
SEE THE NEXT ONE. OU CANNOT,
HOWEVER, SKIP BACK TO A PREVIOUS
QUESTION: YOU MUST GO THROUGH ALL 53
QUESTIONS BEFORE THE PROGRAM RETURNS
TO THE FIRST.

ORD EARCH ODE
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OU'RE NOT DONE ONCE YOU ANSWER A
CROSSWORD CLUE. S YOU WILL SEE, A
GRID OF JUMBLED LETTERS OCCUPIES THE
TOP PORTION OF THE SCREEN. HEN YOU
PRESS 7, A CURSOR WILL APPEAR IN THE
LETTER GRID. OUR JOB IS TO FIND THE
WORDS YOU'VE JUST ENTERED IN THE
"CROSSWORD" PART OF THE GAME.

NCE YOU'VE FOUND A WORD, USE THE
CURSOR KEYS AND THE TO
HIGHLIGHT IT ON THE SCREEN. F YOU
HAVE TROUBLE READING HIGHLIGHTED
LETTERS, THE PROGRAM'S AUTHOR
RECOMMENDS THAT YOU MAKE THE LETTERS
IN THE GRID LOWER CASE. RESS
AND THE KEY AT THE SAME
TIME TO TOGGLE BETWEEN UPPER AND
LOWER CASE.

OTICE THAT YOU CAN SWITCH BACK AND
FORTH BETWEEN THE CROSSWORD AND THE
WORD SEARCH PUZZLES AT ANY TIME:
PRESS 7 TO GO TO THE WORD SEARCH, 1
TO RETURN TO CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

HE AST UZZLE
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FTER YOU HAVE FOUND ALL 53 WORDS
IN THE WORD PUZZLE, PRESS 7 AGAIN,
JUST TO LET THE COMPUTER MAKE SURE
THAT ALL THE WORDS HAVE IN FACT BEEN
DISCOVERED.

F YOU'VE DISCOVERED ALL OF THE
WORDS, YOU HAVE ONE MORE TASK AHEAD
OF YOU. HE COMPUTER WILL TAKE THE
EXTRA LETTERS LEFT OVER FROM THE WORD
SEARCH PUZZLE AND CREATE ONE LAST
"WORD JUMBLE." HE SOLUTION TO THE
JUMBLE ALSO ANSWERS THE QUESTION "OW
DO YOU FEEL ABOUT COMPUTING?" NSWER
THE QUESTION USING THE LETTERS OF THE
JUMBLE -- THERE ARE FOUR WORDS IN THE
SOLUTION.




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